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2010-10-15

MechaniCards: Mailable Kinetic Sculptures

YouTube - Introducing MechaniCards™

Mailable kinetic sculptures, made by Bradley N. Litwin. They're made primarily of paperboard, with few bits of wood and plastic.

Collected from: YouTube - Introducing MechaniCards™

Mechanicards mailable scultptures by Brad Litwin

MechaniCards™ are miniature, hand-operated, kinetic sculptures, designed and produced in limited edition by Bradley N. Litwin. Each one is hand made, numbered and signed by the artist. They are constructed primarily from paperboard, with a few bits of wood, metal, or plastic. They make excellent gifts, and are suitable for mailing, as truly unique greeting cards. Each piece comes with complete instructions and display recommendations. They are also available as do-it-yourself construction kits.

Collected from: Mechanicards mailable scultptures by Brad Litwin

Bradley N. Litwin is a Philadelphia based, multi-discipline artist, born in 1955. Primarily self-trained, his career as an artist has taken a serpentine path through craft, manufacturing, multimedia production, music, and the fine arts. Through it all, he has been making machinery of one kind or another for over thirty-five years.

Collected from: Brad Litwin - Bio

Sources: YouTube - Introducing MechaniCards™; Brad Litwin - Bio; Mechanicards mailable scultptures by Brad Litwin

Related: Brad Litwin - Kinetic Works; Dude Craft: Bradley N. Litwin's Mechanicards; Make: Online : Brad Litwin's MechaniCards; Mechanicards « Karela Fry; Brad Litwin's MechaniCards

2009-05-29

Carl Pisaturo -- Kinetic Sculptures

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Carl Pisaturo, an applications engineer at Stanford, creates kinetic sculptures in his spare time that include a transmutoscope, a 3D photograph viewer, and two upper body bots with 21 servos in a series named "Slave Zero." His studio is named Area 2881 after his address and houses 400 sq. ft. of art and light. Visit Carl's site to see his work, which he claims is "a money sink."

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Electro-Mechanical Eye Candy

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Carl Pisaturo

B U I L T O B J E C T S

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Slave 1 Performance Robot

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MOTORIZED KINETIC LIGHT SCULPTURES

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Carl Pisaturo - light machines

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Serpentine Robot Arm with Tendon Transmission

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Carl Pisaturo - robot arm

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Each sculpture can take months to finish, with all parts custom-made by him."Fully custom mechanical objects with lighting can take a long time," says Pisaturo who does the machining for the metal himself, "from three months to two years in case of the slave robots."

Pisaturo has posted detailed material, design and electrical notes for his creations on his website.

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Animal-Like Leg Extensions

Clipped from: Kim Graham Studios

Digigrade Leg Extensions

These are Digigrade leg extensions. They are made of steel and add 14 inches of height to the wearer. But these are not ordinary stilts; they give a person the uncanny and graceful appearance of an animal. It is really cool! The movement of the legs is genuinely graceful and naturalistic. It is a great deal of fun being so much taller.

Clipped from: YouTube - Digilegs Demo

Clipped from: Silk Mermaid

Constructing large sculptures, step by step

Professional sculptor Kim Graham works at many scales. She especially likes creating large-scale (12-15-foot, 4-5m) sculptures. On this website, SilkMermaid.com, Kim describes in exact detail each step in constructing these large projects, from initial maquette (model) to eventual completion.

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From time to time, Kim has paused work on the large projects to execute other commissions. She chronicles some of these on this blog, such as her recent commission “Satyr Legs.” The Satyr Legs project prompted Kim to design her new digigrade leg extensions, [...]

Clipped from: Digitigrade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Digitigrade

A digitigrade is an animal that stands or walks on its digits, or toes. Digitigrades include walking birds (what many assume to be bird knees are actually ankles), cats, dogs, and most other mammals, but not humans, bears, and a few others (cf. plantigrade, unguligrade). They are generally quicker and move more quietly than other mammals.

While humans usually walk with the soles of their feet on the ground, i.e. plantigrade locomotion, digitigrade animals walk on their distal and intermediate phalanges. Digitigrade locomotion is responsible for the distinctive hooked shape of dog legs.

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